EXOTIC CAR HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was the 3rd Annual Wheels of Italy car show at the Lake Calhoun Executive Plaza in Minneapolis. There was 6 Lamborghinis, about 50 Ferraris, some Maseratis, Panteras, Ducatis and just about everything else you could ever want, even some Lotuses even though they arent from Italy.

Lets start with the Ferraris and get them out of the way, Im kinda sick of them now.








Next, some Maseratis:

Some Panteras:



Lotus and Porsche:

Lotus Elise:

Lotus Esprit (like the one im getting):





Older Lamborghinis:
Islero:


Espada:




Miura:




And fnially, the best car of the day, the 1999 Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster. My favorite car in the entire world!!!!! Out of thousands of people at the show, I was one of the only three that got to sit in it! Ill have those picstures later though cus they are on a friends camera.




















The scene on Lake Street as they left:

Thats all for now!

the ghetto

only my really close friends kow this but until i was about 6, this is where i lived. in a trailer out in chaska. i drove through this place for the first time in about ten years the other day and its more ghetto then some parts of north minneapolis. brought back lots of memories though....

lotusssss

this is pretty much the exact lotus esprit that i will be getting. the impala is pretty much sold right now. just imagine this car with better racing rims and lowered a little...

aminals

went to the zoo today... saw some critters.. here are pics (like i ever have a post without pics!)
tiger, everyones favorite:

the brazilian tapir.. i did a report on these things in middle school and got an A:

the loris... i dont know what the hell it is but its cute:

tree kangaroo.. i want to hug the shit out of this guy:

red panda... want to hug this one too... such a bushy tail!:

small clawed otter... tiny little otter bout a little bigger then a ferret:

american river otter... muuuuch bigger then a ferret... some day i will have a couple of these in my back yard playing in a river:

the WOLVERINE!!! my favorite! this guy can take down just about anything including bears and hae even been recorded tackling a mountain lion!

meerkats... lazy but cute, kinda like the african safari version of a ferret:

another

just a nice 1985 lotus turbo esprit i came across today.... mine will be newer allthough i like the lamborghini countach-esque shapes on this car....

chicago!

Got back from a week long trip to chicago on sunday. Here are my pics in case anyone cares about someone elses vacation photos....
We stayed at the Palmer-House Hilton which is a $200+ a night hotel... This is the lobby:

This is our room. it is the third nicest room in the hotel, being that its on the only corner that can see lake Michigan and it is bigger than most of the other rooms:

The views looking out the windows in daylight:


Same views, at night:



Some panoramic shots of downtown. You could fit like 5 downtown minneapolises in this damn city!


This is a nice view from the river that goes through downtown. there are all sorts of nice boats cruising the waters on a saturday night and the architecture of the buildings on the river is amazing:

This is the Hancock center:


This is the Sears Tower. The highest building in North America. You can see 4 different states from it on a clear day.


Various views from the top of the Sears Tower:



This is a park called Millenium Park. It is quite new and is really cool becaues its like a little vacation right in the middle of downtown. This is the ampitheater and grassy lawn area. As you can see by the night time shot, people just come here and set out blankets and drink champagne and chill and stuff. the buildings lights change colors too...


This is a... umm... art installment / fountain at Millenium Park. A video of a face is projected on this (theres another one behind where the picture is taken from) for about ten minutes and it blinks and smiles and stuff and then about every ten minutes, the face puckers up and sprays all the people beneath it with water for about 20 seconds. TONS of kids come here to splash around and play every day. there are 1000 faces of various Chicago residents that it goes through.

finally, the CARS!!! This city is a damn Ferrari heaven. The pics below represent a small portin of waht was actually seen. There was 5 other 360 modenas and a few others as well. here are the 'rarris i got a chance to photograph:




oh and the LAMBORGHINI!!!!! minutes after this picture was taken, one looking just like this drove by down the street.

thats all for now folks, hope you enjoyed! I guess i owed you a lot of photos from my lack of update recently!

classy

this is a restaraunt called Bellanotte (in case you cant read the bright ass sign in the picture) in downtown minneapolis, right across from the target center... expensive food, very nice area. i hvae yet to eat there but it has gotten good reviews.

their valet parking is fucking insane. last nights lineup was less impressive then last saturdays but still these cars last night were there and these were the best of the bunch. we got a silver dodge viper, a red ferrari 360 modena spider, and a black 2002 lotus esprit (i will own one!) last week there was another ferrari and a couple "bling bling" big ass rims on average cars in addition to the exotics below...



oh yeah, just becuase the last one of these generated so much response, heres another lotus eslise from earlier in the night: